THE CONSTITUTION OF INFANT MATHEMATICS SUBJECTIVITIES IN THE PROJECT "TESSELLATIONS FOR CHILDREN"

Abstract

This article, inscribed in the archaeo-genealogical approach and the analytics of Foucauldian governmentality, is a documentary exploration that seeks to determine the ways in which children are constituted in mathematical subjectivities, within the framework of the statements expressed in the documents that are part from the school pedagogical project "Tessellations for Children", a didactic alternative in primary school for the development of spatial and geometric thinking of children, where it is possible to make visible, the government technologies that are used in a calculated way, to achieve this process of infantile subjectivation. With this, an attempt is made to glimpse the condition of power mechanisms adopted by the pedagogical projects that are incorporated in the classroom to improve the development, the construction of knowledge and the children's learning processes. Among the findings, it was possible to establish those control mechanisms that are introduced and used through the enunciations of the project, to channel the behaviors of the children and, thus, lead them towards the constitution of mathematical infantile subjectivities, which works in accordance with the requirements and interests of contemporary rationality. In conclusion, with this particular type of studies, it is proposed to analyze, question and problematize the character assumed by pedagogical projects as places of enunciation and feasibility of the modes of infantile subjectivation, in particular, of mathematical infantile subjectivities.